There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTherefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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